Notices by fool! seeking jort dorado (c1t7@vcity.network), page 3

Pee-wee: There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

Dottie: I don't understand.

Pee-wee: You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott.

it's all about body temperature and mindset

if you can't maintain an appropriate body temperature, you got a real problem and seek aide [note: YOU GET TO DETERMINE APPROPRIATE TEMPERATURE ]

if you are physically warm and not at risk for frostbite, etc then it becomes a mental fight

i worked for years outside in north-east wisconsin delivering pizzas in conditions where it was only other fools like me and snow plows on the road [and sometimes the plows weren't out either] and my first rule is:

IF YOU DON'T NEED TO BE OUTSIDE: DON'T BE OUTSIDE

[need is employment, health and safety of you or others, and basically important shite. ]

second rule is a mindset rule:

DON'T SHOW OFF.

Don't worry about looks, speed, time things take, etc. Staying warm and not getting hurt or in an accident are more important than anything else.

rules three (last rule):

your state of mind is an important component to survival. imagining everything as end of the world big event doesn't help you. The only weather report you need is the temperatures for the next few days and precipitation predictions -- everything else is noise.

enter your location and the word weather in a search engine and it should list all the info you need on the top line in a handy picture.

that's all you need -- anything else will cut into your resolve.

FEAR IS A MIND KILLER

don't dwell on anything but the next few hours -- it's all we can hope to control anyway

remember:

ANYTHING IS SURVIVABLE IF YOU KNOW IT WILL END

it's when you think it will never end when the fear and anxiety takes root

@djsundog

there are number of performances that appear to be from small halls or schools.

even found one that appeared to be a demo from a the korg DSM-1

the style sound right

now i know what my yamaha sy55 was trying to sound like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMYu9JNbSk

@djsundog

nifty

....it's time....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xl3IINDsvE

but i still have the video queue

and a backup server in the future

and a prod server in the now

and you and me are enjoying the night

cause we got our ssl certificates to bring us friends

drinking wine

watching some tail -f queues

listening to rapper's delight

does it get any better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM

felt like a little morris day and the time -- jungle love

i wanna know you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2FPQvwhSDY

riding monkeys on my mind

this looks like a recipe for an awesome buddy cop drama

https://vcity.network/media/--5fCgh8yb1sHdSzppA

@thegibson @djsundog @Gargron

Poultry based computing is an egg-citing field.

We are always adding new layers to meet demand.

Add us to your recipe for success in the kitchen and beyond

We got miles and miles of zilla's

:godzilla2: :godzilla1: :godzilla3:

hmmmmm......

i think the internet reversed it

my ancient brain box might be remembering things wrong, but i think we were the ones with the tags on us and they were the ones without the tags

it was them and then there was the punks, skaters, metal heads, skin heads, straight edges, grease monkeys, bowlers, musicians, nerds, etc

people policed entrance into the culture of the group and the worst thing one could be called was a poser.

i remember this kid from a great section of town who bought all the punk accessories and started hanging out with the theater arts crew in college and he was immediately dubbed something like Paulie the Poser Punk

it turned out there was someone who went to high school with him he didn't recognize who basically told everyone he wasn't what he pretended to be [i think he was also claiming bad neighborhood issues when he was from one of the most exclusive neighborhoods]

needless to say, the real punks, skaters, djs, and bartenders he tried to impress weren't having any of it.

i think he went back to polo shirts and khakis by his sophomore year.

needless to say, when i was young, belonging to the group you wanted to was the goal.

to live without a tag, a group, a social identity, that was a problem.

i think it got turned around a bit a few years later (mid-90s) when i was hanging with the goths (as pale as a ghost in a snowstorm skin tones are appreciated there) when we started referring to non-goths / scene people as something...but i can't remember what...

once again the titles we gave ourselves were more important than what society, which we saw as rejecting us, was called.

they were they, we were goths, club kids, acid kids, industrial, ravers, dirt bags, dead heads, you get the points...

it was being part of something that was important, not standing alone

from 2008 to last year, i never felt i was part of a community, i didn't feel i was part of something bigger, it was only when i found mastodon and started supported the server i was on, and later got my own, when i felt i belonged.

I don't feel there is a group name for here, which i like, and i find the titles we give each other reminds me of that other time where we struggled to join instead of expecting to be let in cause we bought a ticket.

this is a place you have to love to stay, cause the price of being here is caring and empathy and being a human being with strengths and weaknesses and good days and bad and that is what i like

i am glad we don't have a culture of calling out posers, of taking someones dream of belonging and destroying it because of someone's past.

i feel we all are willing to cut everyone a second or third chance as long as they are trying to be a better member of the in group.

i like it here, and don't think we need to insult anyone with mean tags in order to make ourselves feel better.

i hope i have been a good citizen here and hope that if i do hurt you, you'll let me know.

it's the least we can do to help each other heal.

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thank you for reading this work inspired by @chosafine

for when you want to feel like you are taking an entire sheet of salty blotter

🎶 tomorrow's gonna start tonight. 🎶

🎶 (turn around bright eyes) every now and then i fall apart 🎶

this is how my brain wakes me up

and the lyrics are never right

(turning around behind eyes) every now and then i sing along

from the text i get the feeling he is good speaker who has a gift for making others believe him and want to give him what he's asking for - similar to a good preacher

but...

a bit through the article he gets to talking about greeks doing roman thinking and then talks about there being 10,000 years of no advancement --

----begin quote
"There are a couple of doomsday scenarios. There’s like, what happened after a few hundred years of the Romans importing Greeks to do their thinking for them. It’s like a thousand years of nothing. So, our thousand years of nothing could be more in the ten thousand-year range, because of the amount of action and consensus that’s required on the climate."
----end quote

and this is what got stuck in my craw and is the same issue i have with nearly every other "wise pioneer" or "started a genre/school/etc" type of person.

they view "just" living as bad.

imagine if you will that the human race has 10,000 years to live, to care, to dream, to create, is that bad?

or is it bad, because nothing "cool" will happen?

it has often been my thought that there have been too many people who want to live in "interesting times"

----begin quote
"World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are empty pages in her."

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
----end quote

it has long been my belief that it will take a long time for humanity to grow into what it has.

it has been a crazy five hundred years, where anyone from a time before could be shifted backwards up to 500 years and (barring language issues) be able to survive without much difficulty in the new era.

But, in the last half millennium [and especially the last 200 years] even a 10 year shift in time yields a world which is different than what came before and hard for one to adapt to [and it just gets worse the wider the time frame]

Right now, we are teen-agers with their first car trying to see how fast it can go, what it can do, how much hooting and hollering we can get away with before we have an accident.

There is only so much a teen-ager can do, mentally, physically, emotionally. They don't have the experiences of an adult.

The human race has just graduated from high school, it now needs to get past it's college years, settle down, figure out how the work/life/family balance can happen.

We have done amazing things, you all have done amazing things, but our species is barely ready for college.

Imagine what we'll be in later ages, when we've learned how to adult as a species, how to raise a family as a species, how to keep the house clean and enjoy the vacations. What kind of world would that be? Probably pretty boring to Alan Kay and his compatriots.

The great thinkers of the 20th century wanted us to grow up too fast, we need to take that high school growth spurt and apply it now to real learning as we see it isn't all about us for the first time.

[Sorry to go on so long, the idea got stuck and i needed it to go somewhere]

@djsundog

@djsundog

almost forgot about how old that is until is saw it was from streettech.

so have to bookmark that at home before i have to refind it again in a few months/years

What was Bowie doing at your age:

http://supbowie.com/

i do have 1200 bricks in 64 brick stacks

4 years ago we had 2 chimneys and 1 fireplace

now we have no chimneys and no fireplaces

i did all that work removing them, paid all that money, and have nothing to show

@djsundog had a long stream of posts on the evening of 17 december reminding the feeds of the time before all these specialized machines and brutalist architectures we bring into our homes thinking we are sleek and modern.

this got me thinking about my current relationship with my systems.

currently the system i use everyday is an asus x556uq which came with a 500g ssd and i modded before even turning on to have a second one where the cd-rom used to be.

It is a dual drive/dual boot with win10 on one side and ubuntu studio 17.04 on the other.

I haven't booted into win10 for 8 months but i also don't plan on removing it either.

this system uses cords and dongles to add components like the old commodore 64 that i used to create a table top RPG on back in the day and play endless video games and go on my first BBSs.

It is truly the first system i have used in twenty years of making systems and deploying them (for myself or the pc-bang i used to run) that I feel i truly own.

if i want a feature, i install it.

if i don't, i remove it.

if something doesn't work, i fix it or work around it (if there is no fix)

it is mine and it does what i want, not what someone else wanted.

sorry for the extended post, but if you have your own instance you might as well be allowed to make posts as long as you like.

[thats what i learned from a dragon]

every time someone mentions a mechanical keyboard, my mind keeps thinking of those manual typewriter keyboards attached to computers in max headroom

something like this

https://vcity.network/media/ljsEdeviHLnnplA3Xhg